Ryan POV
The elevator felt far too small with Scarlett standing beside me.
I never looked directly at her, but that didn’t make her any less present.
If anything, being this close to her made it harder to ignore her.
My wolf was restless beneath my skin, urging me to turn toward her, catch her scent, and find out whether she was as aware of me as I was of her.
I kept it under control.
I’d spent the past several days thinking about our situation.
I had a pretty good idea of what Scarlett was waiting for me to do, but I wasn’t in a hurry to make the first move.
If I rushed toward her now, I’d be the one chasing her.
And I didn’t want to make myself so easy to take for granted that she never had to think about what it meant to have me in her life.
The elevator reached the to
